Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Resolving Infidelity To Keep A Relationship Strong

By John S Laney

One partner being unfaithful is one of the biggest reasons relationships end. If you cheated on your partner or they cheated on you, it feels awful. The person that got cheated on usually believes they can never trust their partner again.

Trust is an essential part of close, intimate, real love. When it is broken, we feel (for a while) like there is no hope for getting it back. Even if we loved much about our mate, if they cheated on us, we dont see how we could ever be happy again with them, how could we trust them after such a sense of betrayal.

However, trust can be rebuilt, and it must be, in order for the relationship to have any chance. And, it can begin to be restored in minutes. Heres whats needed:

Between you there needs to be delivered and accepted a Deep Apology. Most apologies don't work, but a Deep Apology is powerful.

To begin to restore the trust in your relationship, a deep apology is required. Deep apologies are much more that just saying I'm sorry, even if you really mean it.

Deep apologies have several different steps involved in them before you actually say "I'm sorry." One important step is to empathize with your mate by mirroring the emotional pain you caused by cheating on them. You need to make your mate feel deeply understood to get to deeper levels of forgiveness.

There are some other steps involved, but at the least don't think saying "I'm sorry" can return things to the status quo. A deep apology requires as much listening as it does talking on your part.

If you are the one who was cheated on, and you want to get past the infidelity, there are also ways you can ask your mate to fess up and tell you how they think it made you feel. This will help you begin to let go of the hurt feelings. Again, there is more to all of this, but you can get past infidelity and save your relationship or marriage if you use some Emotional Intelligence to help restore the broken trust. - 20897

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